Sideshow Alien Space Jockey Maquette Images and Info

Sideshow has posted up some new photos of their upcoming Alien – Space Jockey Maquette. The statue, based on designs by H.R. Giger, shows the long dead creature, one we would eventually call an Engineer, as seen in the original Alien from 1979. As in the movie, the Space Jockey is depicted sitting in a massive flight chair with a hole in its chest. While scale is not mentioned here, fans looking to acquire this piece will need to clear off some serious shelf space. Sideshow dropped in an image, showing just how large the statue is.

Pre-orders being on Thursday, February 5th. It will be priced at $599.99. Read on to see the images.

I want this to go with my Alien figures from NECA. However, the price is way too high for me. I couldn't even pay half of that.

My thoughts exactly. Having a few Nostromo suit characters around that would be awesome (and fun to do a shoot with). $600 is just too much for me to justify. Once I get around the $300-$400 mark, my wife starts to give me the stink eye.

Agreed. I want this for my Neca scene,but that price is out of hand. Sideshow has been increasing prices faster and steeper than any other company. My first starwars 1/6 scale was $50 from them,now they push close to $300. I love their premium format items but again,they started around $250 now they just showed of the new court of the dead at $600.

They have priced me out. To bad,but other companies will get my money now.

It's a matter of shattered preconceptions and expectations. I always envisioned the Engineers as something truly alien based on the remains in that chair, much more in the spirit of alien-ness manifested in Giger's original creation. For me, it was disappointing to see the Space Jockey reduced to a spacesuit for the Michelin Man. I look on the movie as profiteering through demystification and anthromorphization, and hate it for that reason (among others). Scott took something really artistic and cutting-edge and dumbed it down. JMHO.

It's a matter of shattered preconceptions and expectations. I always envisioned the Engineers as something truly alien based on the remains in that chair, much more in the spirit of alien-ness manifested in Giger's original creation. For me, it was disappointing to see the Space Jockey reduced to a spacesuit for the Michelin Man. I look on the movie as profiteering through demystification and anthromorphization, and hate it for that reason (among others). Scott took something really artistic and cutting-edge and dumbed it down. JMHO.

Since it was Ridley's to begin with so he could do almost anything and say it fits, within the canon it would. I totally get why you, and a lot of others, didn't like Prometheus but I quite enjoyed that it wasn't just another Alien movie. I do agree that it's a disappointment the Engineers weren't more, well, alien. That doesn't stop me from thinking the chair suit looks really cool. Given the film's explanation of human origin it does make more sense for them to look fairly human.